DMC-FX7
ƒ/2.8
5.8 mm
1/10
200
A 10 Megabyte Disc Drive.
“Imagine a huge room full of 600 of these. In 40 years, they will run off a small battery and will fit in your pocket…”
4 responses to “Prehistoric iPod”
-
That’s a pretty accurate prediction. I wonder if the really knew what the theoretical limits of magnetic storage would be.
Makes me wonder if the storage equivalent of 600 iPods will fit in my pocket and be powered by the current flowing through my skin.
Holographic storage promises much and is not too far off the horizon either.
-
Historical images like this make me appreciate how far technology has come even in my short lifetime. I remember having an Apple Performa 460 with a 80MB hard drive in the early 1990s. Later on, in 1995 my Dad purchased a Sony VAIO with a 6GB drive I remember. Right now I am running two hard drives, one SATA, one IDE with 240GB of total storage. Think of government, poverty, or anything else really, improved at the same rate as technology.
-
…Then there was the wall-long punch-card "computer’ I used in collage in 1970. We punched in the info we wanted worked on and came back the next day for a short reply from the Motherboard in downtown Seattle somewhere…
…And now I tap away here, and post 2-megabyte photos one these places called web-sites in Cyberspace…what next?
You probably actually know!
Leave a Reply